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Cosmetic Surgery and Flowers
This was one of those 'quickies' that just did not go well at all. I used my Lamy Safari fountain pen and attempted to sketch my fireplace from a position on my sofa that Houdini would have been proud...
End Of The Month
Well I'm gradually getting organised in the indoor studio, there are so many advantages it would be hard to list them all but having my PC in the same place as my work is a definite bonus.I'm still wa...
In An English Country Garden
Fenland Flowers is a local business owned by family friends Tim & Dawn, so I popped round to see if they had any Iris. Sadly, there were none on the Friday delivery truck, so Dawn made a quick p...
Joannie's Iris
Back from a wonderful break in Coltishall with my dear friend Joannie with just enough time to unpack and set off for my Wednesday night art workshop.Joannie picked me one of her beautiful Iris before...
Making Do
There are poppies blooming all over the garden and they look gorgeous. I've been tempted to paint them but every moment I have it seems to be raining, so I compromised and grabbed the silk stem I hav...
First Date and Second Year Anniversary
Flo is my new journal, made by Kala on Etsy and we shared our first date together this week. Filled with Bockingford watercolour paper and draped in summer floral fabric, she's one deliciously, volu...
Sun Lounging
The weather has taken a turn for the better here in the UK the past couple of weeks and I managed to fit a spot of sun worship into my days, with my sketchbook of course!I picked one of the flowers fr...
Day 16 - The Voice Of Georgia O'Keeffe
"I hate flowers. I only paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move." Georgia O'Keeffe...
Sunday Grid
A journal page from the weekend.I'm finding it easier to use grids with small sketches in for my journal entries since signing up to the Everyday in May project and choosing a theme. That and the 'Clo...
Day 5 - The Voice Of Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." Ralph Waldo Emerson...
Day 1 - The Voice Of Paul Gauguin
"Without delay I began work. Without hesitation and all of a fever"Paul Gauguin This is how the double spread layout looks in my Khadi sketchbook. This is the self-portrait by Gauguin I loosely based ...
Finally...
These are the last pages in my 40th Birthday Journal my Sons gifted me at the beginning of April. It has been a pleasure to use.My truck went in for it's first MOT on Monday.A little early, I parked f...
Bluebells
The bluebells have woken and dressed my garden with their pretty bonnets....
Another Double Grid
Another double spread in my beautiful journal from spacedogstudios on Etsy. ...
Burghley House
On Saturday, Joan and I decided to drive into Stamford and visit Burghley House.Burghley is one of my favourite stately homes, filled with frescos, history, paintings and carvings...a real treasure tr...
Sketching With Joannie
My dear friend Joannie arrived on Thursday to stay for a few days.We've spent our time, as art friends do, sketching, painting and talking ...and talking ...and talking! Last night we managed a paint...
Celebration Hunt
Managed a couple of pages for the 79th Scavenger Hunt over at Wet Canvas over the weekend.I decided to stick the list into my journal before drawing the items over it on the first page because I alway...
Easter HUNT
Hope you all had a relaxing, long, Easter weekend filled with love and plenty of chocolate!This sketch was created using my new Hunt Crow Quill holder with a size 107 nib, 'Nut Brown' ink by W&N a...
Sporting Art
I painted this in my Altered baby Book this evening using sepia pigment liner and gouache. Item #160 on the Weekly EDM Challenge List is to ' Draw A Trophy', it belongs to my favourite sportsman of al...
Funtime Florals
My parents bought me the most beautiful bouquet, filled with such gorgeous flowers; lilies, gerberas, roses, carnations.... I filled 3 vases!!!I decided to sketch some of them using watercolour alone...
A Hunting We Shall Go
The art from life forum over at Wet Canvas run a weekly scavenger hunt. Basically, a member creates a list of objects and challenges and you sketch from the list over the week with the aim of complet...
A Cherub for Charlie
Charlie Davies 10.03.2003 - 10.03.2003For all you could have been and everything you are to us still...We love you.Happy Birthday Charlie!...
Tulips With A Twist
My Mother's Day floral basket is still going strong and the two white tulips are now in full bloom. I decided to paint them in watercolour and add the ink afterwards, I usually draw in ink first then ...
Column Week 5
(Click images to enlarge)This is my 5th column entry in the Cambs Times & Wisbech Standard, in print today. In case you have difficulty reading the text size in the top image, it reads as follows:...
Gifts
I decided to stick with the 'Spring' theme for all my PIF gifts.Leslie BrasherI'm sending Leslie this 5x7" 'daily painting' of tulips in ink and watercolour. Jeanne Grant I know that Jeanne collects ...
Happy Mother's Day
I've had the most wonderful day, being spoiled by my boys.Harry purchased this beautiful book for me from the school 'Mother's Day' shop. It is filled with fantastic art by various famous artists, I p...
Just For Me
Both unfinished...Both on purpose!I am a sucker for an unfinished sketch, I find them truly inspirational. They offer hope, action, insight and, for me personally, stir my creativity more than any fin...
Presenting...T.A.B.'s
Oooh, I can't tell you how excited I am about my latest project idea - T.A.B.'s- AKA: Tiny Art Books.Informally known as TABBAD's: Tiny Art Books By Anita Davies.Entirely handmade, hand sketched and h...
Valentine Surprises
What could be more romantic than a single red rose?©Margaret Storer-Roche...and this morning I received the most wonderful surprise in the post, a valentines postcard.Margaret is one of the participa...
Love and Roses
Pigment liner and schmincke watercoloursThe first page in my Saunders Waterford Journal.I drizzled a little watercolour into the bottom corner to see how the paper reacts to washes and the results hav...